Posts Tagged setup

Pressure transmitter pushbuttons to the rescue!

Posted by danweise in Configuration, Installation, Pressure, Pressure Transmitters, Service, Siemens, Transmitters on October 20, 2011

I took a call the other day from a contractor. He was at the construction site, on deadline, and frantic. He was trying to set the zero and range on a Siemens SITRANS P DS-III pressure transmitter‘s 4-20 mA output. He had a HART handheld communicator, but no device descriptor file (DD) that made the two talk to each other. 

Could I help?  Sure! I just asked, “Do you have a Phillips screwdriver?”

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Newly revised Honeywell stripchart manual has navigation overviews

Posted by danweise in Configuration, Honeywell, Recorders, Strip Chart Recorders, Stripchart Paper on September 30, 2011

While talking with people in an instrument shop last week, a technician popped in with a question on settings for a Honeywell paper strip chart recorder, the DPR 250.  I always have to look up the keypad navigation paths because I can’t remember them.  Read the rest of this entry »

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